Submit an excerpt from the dialogue you formatted today during class. Your submission should include an exchange of dialogue between two speakers that is formatted correctly. We will be going over these examples tomorrow during class, so make sure you check your work before submitting!!!
 
Our vocabulary blog word this week is artifice.

As defined by Merriam-Webster, artifice,
a noun, means "clever or cunning devices or expedients, esp. as used to trick or deceive."

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After completing text p.118 Exercise 16, please list the 4 fairy-tale characters who participated in the conversation!

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